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		<title>Abridge Expands Context-Aware Clinical Intelligence Across Partner Health Systems</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Clinical administrative workload and the friction in establishing a diagnosis have caused stress on health systems all over the country. Ambient AI documentation tools have Yes made headway by capturing patient-doctor conversations and automatically turning those into clinical notes. Despite that, physicians were still required to either interrupt their daily clinical routines or scroll through [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://itdigest.com/healthtech/abridge-expands-context-aware-clinical-intelligence-across-partner-health-systems/" data-wpel-link="internal">Abridge Expands Context-Aware Clinical Intelligence Across Partner Health Systems</a> appeared first on <a href="https://itdigest.com" data-wpel-link="internal">ITDigest</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Clinical administrative workload and the friction in establishing a diagnosis have caused stress on health systems all over the country. Ambient AI documentation tools have Yes made headway by capturing patient-doctor conversations and automatically turning those into clinical notes. Despite that, physicians were still required to either interrupt their daily clinical routines or scroll through lengthy, multi-page electronic health records (EHRs) to find the clinical evidence that they needed, summarize a pre-visit, or prepare a complex referral letter.</p>
<p>Addressing this operational friction, generative AI leader Abridge announced that partner health systems can now extend its context-aware clinical intelligence agent to every clinician across their enterprise organizations.</p>
<p>Rather than limiting intelligence capabilities to clinicians who actively use ambient scribing, health systems can deploy Abridge&#8217;s clinical decision support across their entire care teams either directly within existing EHR interfaces or through flexible mobile and web platforms.</p>
<h3><strong>The News: Chart-Aware Decision Support for Every Clinician</strong></h3>
<p>Abridge’s announcement expands access to a context-aware decision support engine that has already been adopted across more than 300 enterprise health systems representing 250 million patients. Monthly active users have grown to encompass over half of eligible Abridge clinicians, with decision support queries tripling over the last two months alone.</p>
<h4><strong>Also Read: <a class="p-url" href="https://itdigest.com/healthtech/hippocratic-ai-launches-agentic-orchestrators-to-own-end-to-end-healthcare-outcomes/" target="_self" rel="bookmark" data-wpel-link="internal">Hippocratic AI Launches “Agentic Orchestrators” to Own End-to-End Healthcare Outcomes</a></strong></h4>
<p>The expanded rollout equips care teams with several key capabilities throughout the care continuum:</p>
<p><strong>Pre-Visit Acceleration:</strong> Automatically synthesizes patient chart histories into succinct pre-visit summaries before the encounter begins.</p>
<p><strong>In-Workflow Decision Support:</strong> Delivers real-time, chart-aware answers grounded in peer-reviewed medical literature—including journals like The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and specialty associations.</p>
<p><strong>Contextual Artifact Generation:</strong> Drafts tailored post-visit documentation, referral letters, and patient handoffs directly from longitudinal patient records.</p>
<p><strong>Continuous Medical Education (CME):</strong> Enables physicians to earn AMA PRA Category 1 Credit<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> directly for the clinical evidence queries they explore during daily practice.</p>
<h3>Transforming the Healthcare, HealthTech, and Clinical Decision Support Industry</h3>
<p>Abridge’s shift from individual clinician tools to enterprise-wide clinical intelligence accelerates structural changes across the Healthcare, HealthTech, and Digital Health sector.</p>
<p><strong>The Shift from Passive Scribing to Active Decision Engineering</strong><br />
For years, digital health vendors treated ambient AI as a narrow utility designed solely to draft clinical notes.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.abridge.com/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer sponsored ugc">Abridge</a>’s enterprise expansion highlights the obsolescence of passive recording tools. The HealthTech baseline is moving toward active clinical orchestration. Software solutions are no longer judged simply on how well they reduce typing, but on whether they can intelligently synthesize the patient record, cross-reference gold-standard guidelines, and recommend evidence-based next steps directly at the point of care.</p>
<p><strong>Eliminating Governance and Integration Bottlenecks</strong><br />
Historically, introducing new clinical decision support tools required health systems to undergo prolonged vendor reviews, separate security assessments, and custom software integrations for every new feature.</p>
<p>By running its intelligence agent on top of the enterprise security and data governance infrastructure already approved for documentation, Abridge establishes a streamlined deployment playbook. Enterprise leaders can turn on context-aware decision support across thousands of providers as a simple policy update rather than a costly IT implementation project.</p>
<h3>Broad Operational Impact on Health Systems and Enterprise Businesses</h3>
<p>For hospital executives, chief medical information officers (CMIOs), and healthcare operations teams, deploying unified clinical intelligence yields significant operational advantages:</p>
<p><strong>Reclaiming Clinician Bandwidth and Reducing Cognitive Fatigue</strong><br />
Time is spent daily by general practitioners and specialists looking up clinical guidelines and linking patient histories. Real-time chart-aware intelligence removes this cognitive friction, which relieves stress on physicians and gives back time to patients.</p>
<p><strong>Standardizing Quality of Care Across Enterprise Health Networks</strong><br />
Disparities in clinical decision-making can lead to variable patient outcomes and increased organizational risk. Grounding point-of-care recommendations in validated medical literature ensures that care delivery remains consistent across large, multi-site health systems—improving diagnostic accuracy and protecting health system operating margins.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://itdigest.com/healthtech/abridge-expands-context-aware-clinical-intelligence-across-partner-health-systems/" data-wpel-link="internal">Abridge Expands Context-Aware Clinical Intelligence Across Partner Health Systems</a> appeared first on <a href="https://itdigest.com" data-wpel-link="internal">ITDigest</a>.</p>
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		<title>CI&#038;T Launches Business Builders and Agentic Enterprise Reinvention Offering</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>CI&#38;T, a global AI deployment partner for tech-integrated business solutions, has announced the creation of CI&#38;T Business Builders, a dedicated new unit created to help established enterprises navigate competitiveness, relevance, and perpetuity in an artificial intelligence-driven landscape. Led by Paula Englert, Global Chief Business Strategy Officer at CI&#38;T and CEO of Box1824, alongside Fernando Ostanelli, [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://itdigest.com/quick-byte/cit-launches-business-builders-and-agentic-enterprise-reinvention-offering/" data-wpel-link="internal">CI&#038;T Launches Business Builders and Agentic Enterprise Reinvention Offering</a> appeared first on <a href="https://itdigest.com" data-wpel-link="internal">ITDigest</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CI&amp;T, a global AI deployment partner for tech-integrated business solutions, has announced the creation of CI&amp;T Business Builders, a dedicated new unit created to help established enterprises navigate competitiveness, relevance, and perpetuity in an artificial intelligence-driven landscape. Led by Paula Englert, Global Chief Business Strategy Officer at CI&amp;T and CEO of Box1824, alongside Fernando Ostanelli, Chief AI Reinvention Officer at CI&amp;T, the new business unit expands the company’s ability to connect overarching business strategy, technology, AI, and organizational transformation into concrete, high-impact operational shifts. Debuting within this unit is &#8220;Agentic Enterprise Reinvention,&#8221; a specialized offering designed to evolve core business operations, decision-making frameworks, and value-creation mechanisms through advanced agentic AI architectures. Emphasizing the fundamental market shift driving the initiative, Cesar Gon, founder and CEO of CI&amp;T, stated:</p>
<h4><strong>Also Read: <a class="p-url" href="https://itdigest.com/quick-byte/sia-expands-australian-footprint-with-acquisition-of-seven-consulting/" target="_self" rel="bookmark" data-wpel-link="internal">Sia Expands Australian Footprint with Acquisition of Seven Consulting</a> </strong></h4>
<p>“<span class="citation-3293">AI is redefining not only technology, but the very logic of competition and value creation. </span><span class="citation-3292 citation-3293 citation-end-3293">Business Builders expands our ability to turn that shift into concrete impact for our clients&#8217; businesses, and it</span><span class="citation-3292 citation-end-3292"> takes our AI deployment to the heart of the processes that define how these companies compete.” </span>Framing the strategic alignment, Englert noted: “<span class="citation-3290 citation-3291 citation-end-3291">Relevant companies today have to make important decisions to make sure they stay competitive and relevant in the future. Business Builders was created to connect strategy, technology, and execution to tha</span><span class="citation-3290 citation-end-3290">t agenda of reinvention and perpetuity.” </span>Expanding on operational execution, Ostanelli added: <span class="citation-3289 citation-end-3289">“This is not only about adding AI to existing processes. Agentic Enterprise Reinvention proposes evolving core business processes and reinventing how companies make decisions, execute work, and create value, building the conditions to compete in a reality increasingly defined by artificial intelli</span>gence.” Launching with active client engagements across financial services, healthcare, consumer goods, and retail tech in North America and Latin America, CI&amp;T Business Builders delivers an end-to-end framework to help legacy enterprises transform AI ambitions into scalable, long-term market leadership.</p>
<h4 class="source-inline-chip-container luminous-sources ng-star-inserted"><strong>Read More: <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260817282886/en/CIT-Launches-Business-Builders-and-Debuts-its-New-Agentic-Enterprise-Reinvention-Offering" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer sponsored ugc">CI&amp;T Launches Business Builders and Debuts its New Agentic Enterprise Reinvention Offering</a></strong></h4>
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		<title>Thunes Partners with Fiserv to Power Real-Time Global Payouts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Global money movement network Thunes has announced a strategic collaboration with payments and financial services technology leader Fiserv to transform how international platforms and marketplaces execute cross-border payouts. Through this alliance, Thunes supports payouts for Fiserv’s global merchant ecosystem, enabling e-commerce platforms, digital marketplaces, and enterprise clients to send funds instantly to employees, suppliers, and [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://itdigest.com/fintech/thunes-partners-with-fiserv-to-power-real-time-global-payouts/" data-wpel-link="internal">Thunes Partners with Fiserv to Power Real-Time Global Payouts</a> appeared first on <a href="https://itdigest.com" data-wpel-link="internal">ITDigest</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Global money movement network Thunes has announced a strategic collaboration with payments and financial services technology leader Fiserv to transform how international platforms and marketplaces execute cross-border payouts. Through this alliance, Thunes supports payouts for Fiserv’s global merchant ecosystem, enabling e-commerce platforms, digital marketplaces, and enterprise clients to send funds instantly to employees, suppliers, and billing entities worldwide via a single integration. By leveraging the Direct Global Network provided by Thunes and the complete money transmission license offered across all necessary US states, Fiserv customers have access to over 12 billion bank accounts and mobile wallets in over 140 countries and 90 currencies. Highlighting how the partnership addresses cross-border operational complexity, Sanjay Saraf, Chief Product Officer, Fiserv Merchant Services, stated: &#8220;As merchants expand across borders, they need payments that are as seamless as their growth ambitions. Our work with Thunes helps businesses move money globally with greater speed, transparency and predictability, supporting more efficient and scalable global operations.&#8221;</p>
<h4><strong>Also Read: <a class="p-url" href="https://itdigest.com/quick-byte/lithic-and-monavate-partner-to-power-fiat-and-on-chain-card-programs/" target="_self" rel="bookmark" data-wpel-link="internal">Lithic and Monavate Partner to Power Fiat and On-Chain Card Programs</a></strong></h4>
<p>Emphasizing the infrastructural validation, Chloé Mayenobe, Deputy CEO at Thunes, added: &#8220;We are thrilled to enable cross-border payments infrastructure for Fiserv as they expand the boundaries of what their customers can achieve. This collaboration further validates Thunes&#8217; ability to support the world&#8217;s largest fintechs with a robust global network designed to support compliant and efficient cross-border payouts. Together with Fiserv, we are powering the future of global commerce by making cross-border payments transparent, reliable, and real-time in supported markets.&#8221; Underscoring the market momentum across the U.S., Kyle Rosen, Head of Americas at Thunes, noted: &#8220;This collaboration with Fiserv captures the powerful momentum we are building in the US. U.S. platforms and marketplaces have historically faced significant friction when paying out globally at scale. Together, Thunes&#8217; licensed U.S. payments capabilities and Fiserv&#8217;s merchant ecosystem can unlock increased speed and efficiency for businesses looking to capture global growth. We are proud to be the infrastructure engine driving this next chapter of real-time commerce for U.S. enterprises.&#8221; Ultimately, this partnership eliminates cross-border payout friction, arming global merchants with real-time, transparent infrastructure to scale international commerce.</p>
<h4><strong>Read More: <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/thunes-to-support-fiservs-real-time-global-payouts-for-platforms-302852742.html" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer sponsored ugc">Thunes to Support Fiserv&#8217;s Real-Time Global Payouts for Platforms</a></strong></h4>
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		<title>Cerbo Debuts Native AI Scribe to Streamline Integrative Medicine Charting</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Independent practice electronic health record (EHR) platform Cerbo announced the launch of AI Scribe, an ambient clinical documentation engine embedded directly into the core Cerbo EHR infrastructure. Designed specifically to support direct-pay, functional, and integrative medicine clinics, the tool listens to patient encounters in real time, interprets complex clinical dialogues, and populates structured notes straight [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Independent practice electronic health record (EHR) platform Cerbo announced the launch of AI Scribe, an ambient clinical documentation engine embedded directly into the core Cerbo EHR infrastructure. Designed specifically to support direct-pay, functional, and integrative medicine clinics, the tool listens to patient encounters in real time, interprets complex clinical dialogues, and populates structured notes straight into the patient chart for practitioner verification.</p>
<p>Unlike standalone documentation software that operates externally, Cerbo AI Scribe eliminates administrative friction by doing away with separate platform logins, multi-screen toggling, and manual copy-pasting. By aligning with the specialized terminology, extended visit structures, and tailored note templates unique to personalized medicine, the platform significantly reduces administrative overhead allowing clinicians to finish documentation before leaving the office.</p>
<h4>Purpose-Built Automation for Personalized Medicine Workflows</h4>
<p>Traditional EHR documentation tools often fail to capture the long-form intakes and multi-faceted treatment plans typical of integrative and functional care models. Cerbo’s built-in scribe engine addresses these operational needs by maintaining structured note formatting while giving practitioners full oversight prior to signing off on medical records.</p>
<h4><strong>Also Read: <a class="p-url" href="https://itdigest.com/healthtech/healthcare-analytics/doceree-launches-the-analytics-workbench-closed-loop-measurement-without-the-closed-system/" target="_self" rel="bookmark" data-wpel-link="internal">Doceree Launches the Analytics Workbench: Closed Loop Measurement Without the Closed System</a> </strong></h4>
<p>Key operational features of Cerbo AI Scribe include:</p>
<p>In-Room Documentation Completion: Captures ambient conversation during patient consultations and generates draft notes in seconds, preventing late-night charting work.</p>
<p>Native Platform Integration: Functions directly within existing Cerbo patient charts without requiring third-party software subscriptions or auxiliary browser extensions.</p>
<p>Clinician-Controlled Validation: Ensures practitioners retain total clinical governance to review, edit, and sign off on all generated documentation before final entry into the medical record.</p>
<p>Rapid Deployment: Enables existing practices to activate the tool within minutes via account settings without demanding complex IT implementations.</p>
<p>Transparent Pricing Tier: Available starting at $29 per provider monthly, alongside a limited-time unlimited usage option at $59 per provider monthly.</p>
<p>&#8220;Providers kept telling us the same thing: they didn&#8217;t get into medicine to spend their evenings catching up on charting,&#8221; said Nishant Phadnis, Chief Product Officer at Cerbo. &#8220;So we built the scribe into the chart itself. The note gets written where the provider already works, before the patient leaves the room.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;AI Scribe is an important first step, but our ambition is much broader: to continually deliver intelligent, meaningful innovation that makes our providers&#8217; lives better, strengthens their practices, and ultimately helps them deliver better care.&#8221;</p>
<h4>Expanding AI Innovation for Independent Healthcare Practices</h4>
<p>The rollout of AI Scribe marks the first phase of <a href="https://www.cer.bo/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer sponsored ugc">Cerbo</a>’s broader strategy to deliver native artificial intelligence tools for independent healthcare providers. By removing administrative barriers, the company aims to help clinicians maintain focus on patient-centered care and business longevity.</p>
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		<title>Synchrony Partners with OpenAI to Power Next-Gen Agentic Commerce</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Consumer financial services company Synchrony announced an enterprise collaboration with OpenAI to integrate financing options, rewards programs, and customer loyalty frameworks directly into conversational AI environments. The strategic initiative positions Synchrony to embed its payments ecosystem into the next generation of agent-driven digital retail and checkout channels. As artificial intelligence evolves from basic consumer search [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://itdigest.com/fintech/synchrony-partners-with-openai-to-power-next-gen-agentic-commerce/" data-wpel-link="internal">Synchrony Partners with OpenAI to Power Next-Gen Agentic Commerce</a> appeared first on <a href="https://itdigest.com" data-wpel-link="internal">ITDigest</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Consumer financial services company Synchrony announced an enterprise collaboration with OpenAI to integrate financing options, rewards programs, and customer loyalty frameworks directly into conversational AI environments. The strategic initiative positions Synchrony to embed its payments ecosystem into the next generation of agent-driven digital retail and checkout channels.</p>
<p>As artificial intelligence evolves from basic consumer search into autonomous transaction orchestration, the collaboration equips Synchrony to deploy frontier AI models across its product development matrix. By integrating payment options directly into conversational flows, the platform ensures merchants and consumers maintain payment flexibility within AI-native shopping environments.</p>
<p>&#8220;AI is creating an opportunity to reimagine the entire commerce experience &#8211; from how customers discover products to how they pay, earn rewards, and build loyalty,&#8221; said Kaylin Voss, VP of Americas and Industries at OpenAI. &#8220;Synchrony is approaching that opportunity from both sides: bringing OpenAI into the experiences it creates for customers and partners, while deploying our most advanced models and tools across its own enterprise. That combination can help Synchrony create better, more seamless experiences for customers while giving its teams the tools to move faster and bring new ideas to life.&#8221;</p>
<h4><strong>Also Read: <a class="p-url" href="https://itdigest.com/fintech/intuit-expands-mid-market-platform-with-conversational-ai-and-deep-industry-workflows/" target="_self" rel="bookmark" data-wpel-link="internal">Intuit Expands Mid-Market Platform with Conversational AI and Deep Industry Workflows</a></strong></h4>
<h4>Expanding Merchant Discoverability via ChatGPT Marketplace Plugins</h4>
<p>A major milestone of the collaboration includes the launch of the dedicated Synchrony Marketplace plugin within the official ChatGPT plugin directory. The plugin allows consumers to discover promotional financing, merchant discounts, and everyday rewards from participating Synchrony partner locations directly within ChatGPT conversational streams.</p>
<p>By bringing merchant offers into natural language conversations, Synchrony establishes an interactive discovery channel that helps retail partners boost sales conversion rates while simplifying product discovery for shoppers.</p>
<p>&#8220;With decades of experience at the intersection of consumer financing, payments, loyalty, and merchant partnerships, Synchrony is uniquely positioned to help shape how AI-powered commerce evolves &#8211; securely, and at scale,&#8221; said Maran Nalluswami, EVP &amp; Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer, <a href="https://www.synchrony.com/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer sponsored ugc">Synchrony</a>. &#8220;This collaboration with <a href="https://openai.com/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer sponsored ugc">OpenAI</a> marks a major milestone for Synchrony, our millions of customers and hundreds of thousands of partner locations. Together, we aim to ensure the value they&#8217;ve entrusted in Synchrony products will thrive in the agentic commerce era.&#8221;</p>
<h4>Enterprise Deployment and Workforce AI Integration</h4>
<p>Beyond consumer-facing commerce capabilities, Synchrony is embedding OpenAI’s frontier AI architectures—including GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna across its internal technical operations via ChatGPT Work, Codex, and AWS Bedrock environments.</p>
<p>To support continuous technology innovation, Synchrony is expanding enterprise-wide AI fluency programs for its workforce:</p>
<p><strong>Widespread Enterprise Adoption:</strong> Nearly 100% of Synchrony’s professional workforce actively utilizes enterprise AI tools in daily operational workflows.</p>
<p><strong>Expanded Operations Suite:</strong> Transitioning internal teams to specialized environments, including ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Work, to streamline analytics and decision-making.</p>
<p><strong>Responsible AI Governance:</strong> Maintains strong workforce alignment, with 90% of employees expressing confidence in the organization&#8217;s commitment to ethical AI deployment.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://itdigest.com/fintech/synchrony-partners-with-openai-to-power-next-gen-agentic-commerce/" data-wpel-link="internal">Synchrony Partners with OpenAI to Power Next-Gen Agentic Commerce</a> appeared first on <a href="https://itdigest.com" data-wpel-link="internal">ITDigest</a>.</p>
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		<title>Hippocratic AI Launches &#8220;Agentic Orchestrators&#8221; to Own End-to-End Healthcare Outcomes</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The healthcare industry has reached an operational breaking point. Despite billions invested in digital health software and generative AI tools over recent years, clinical teams remain overwhelmed by administrative burdens. Most first-generation AI tools focused strictly on task acceleration drafting clinical notes, transcribing physician visits, or answering single inbound calls. However, in an ecosystem driven [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The healthcare industry has reached an operational breaking point. Despite billions invested in digital health software and generative AI tools over recent years, clinical teams remain overwhelmed by administrative burdens. Most first-generation AI tools focused strictly on task acceleration drafting clinical notes, transcribing physician visits, or answering single inbound calls. However, in an ecosystem driven by value-based care, task completion does not automatically equal clinical success. Reducing hospital readmissions or closing gaps in chronic care requires continuous, multi-step engagement across an entire patient population.</p>
<p>Addressing this disconnect, healthcare generative AI pioneer Hippocratic AI announced the launch of Agentic Orchestrators. The new product line transitions voice AI from isolated, task-based interactions to coordinated teams of specialized AI agents managed by a central orchestration brain purpose-built to own and deliver measurable clinical and business outcomes.</p>
<p>Powered by more than 250 million patient interactions across 300 live clinical use cases, Hippocratic AI’s new platform shifts the enterprise healthcare benchmark from answering calls to moving critical metrics.</p>
<h4><strong>Also Read: <a class="p-url" href="https://itdigest.com/information-communications-technology/it-and-devops/atlassian-launches-code-context-to-bridge-codebase-intelligence-with-enterprise-knowledge/" target="_self" rel="bookmark" data-wpel-link="internal">Atlassian Launches Code Context to Bridge Codebase Intelligence with Enterprise Knowledge</a></strong></h4>
<h3>Technical Performance: Coordinated AI Swarms Driven by a Supervising Brain</h3>
<p>The core architectural innovation behind Agentic Orchestrators is the move away from single, multi-purpose chatbots. Instead, Hippocratic AI pairs a supervising coordination layer with specialized voice AI agents that execute specific, highly narrow clinical tasks (such as post-discharge sepsis monitoring, diabetic follow-ups, or medication adherence counseling).</p>
<p>The orchestrators deliver several core technical and operational capabilities:</p>
<p><strong>Context-Aware Dynamic Routing:</strong> The supervising brain evaluates patient responses, health signals, and clinical urgency to determine which specialized agent engages which patient, when, and through what channel.</p>
<p><strong>Enterprise Outcome Bundles:</strong> Launches over 30 targeted orchestrators across three core markets: Payers (e.g., AI Star Ratings Improvement, AI Chronic Care), Providers (e.g., AI Readmission Prevention, AI Lost to Follow-Up Recovery), and Life Sciences (e.g., AI Trial Enrollment, AI Drug Launch Support).</p>
<p><strong>Constellation Model Guardrails:</strong> Runs on the company’s patented Polaris constellation architecture—pairing a 700-billion-parameter primary model with more than 30 specialized supervisor models to continuously audit for clinical safety, adverse events, and escalation triggers. In validation across 775,000 calls reviewed by 7,700 U.S.-licensed clinicians, the architecture achieved 99.89% correct advice with zero instances of serious harm.</p>
<h3>Transforming the Healthcare, Healthtech, and Managed Care Industry</h3>
<p><a href="https://hippocraticai.com/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer sponsored ugc">Hippocratic AI</a>’s launch of outcome-driven agentic swarms accelerates a structural shift across the broader Healthcare and Digital Health ecosystem.</p>
<p><strong>The Obsolescence of Disconnected &#8220;Point-Solution&#8221; Chatbots</strong><br />
For years, health systems and insurers purchased separate point solutions for appointment reminders, post-op outreach, and intake forms. This created fragmented patient experiences and administrative overhead for hospital IT teams.</p>
<p>Agentic Orchestrators demonstrate the limits of standalone bots. The healthtech market is rapidly evolving toward orchestrated intelligence platforms, where software is purchased not by the seat or per-call, but as integrated workflows evaluated on hard business metrics like 30-day readmission reductions and HEDIS quality scores.</p>
<p><strong>Shifting Healthtech Contracting to Accountability and Value-Based Metrics</strong><br />
Historically, enterprise healthcare software vendors sold licenses based on user access or compute usage, insulating themselves from clinical results.</p>
<p>By tying agentic orchestrators directly to population-level metrics such as Medicare Star Ratings or patient retention Hippocratic AI raises the vendor standard. Enterprise healthcare buyers will increasingly demand that AI partners take active responsibility for workflow execution and align commercial contracts with measurable clinical ROI.</p>
<h3><strong>Broad Operational Impact on Healthcare Organizations</strong></h3>
<p>For health systems, health insurance, and pharma companies, having coordinated voice AI teams as part of the workforce delivers financial and operational gains without much effort:</p>
<p><strong>De-Risking Clinical Operations and Maximizing Value-Based Reimbursements</strong><br />
There are significant financial losses every year to hospital systems from preventable 30-day readmissions, the lack of post-follow-up appointments, and missed quality metrics that contribute to lower Medicare STAR ratings. Automating an ongoing campaign of patient outreach by a multi-agent team makes sure care delivery gaps are proactively closed this way ensuring value-based reimbursement and also insulating operating margins.</p>
<p><strong>Reclaiming Nursing Capacity to Alleviate Workforce Burnout</strong><br />
With the nursing scarcity and clinician burnout continuing as an operatively critical problem around the world, nurses still end up doing routine work like giving post-operative calls to check medication schedule, a task that can take up quite a lot of time. Entrusting population-scale outreach to highly trained voice AI orchestrators who operate safely offloads nursing staff. This frees up clinical staff bandwidth so that humans can apply their unique abilities for high-acuity or complex patient care.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://itdigest.com/healthtech/hippocratic-ai-launches-agentic-orchestrators-to-own-end-to-end-healthcare-outcomes/" data-wpel-link="internal">Hippocratic AI Launches &#8220;Agentic Orchestrators&#8221; to Own End-to-End Healthcare Outcomes</a> appeared first on <a href="https://itdigest.com" data-wpel-link="internal">ITDigest</a>.</p>
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		<title>Lithic and Monavate Partner to Power Fiat and On-Chain Card Programs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Card issuer processing platform Lithic has announced a strategic partnership with regulated payments platform Monavate, owned by Exodus Movement, Inc., to provide fintech and digital asset companies with a unified path to build, launch, and scale card programs using both fiat and digital currencies. By combining Lithic’s developer-first processing infrastructure and Authorization Intelligence with Monavate’s [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Card issuer processing platform Lithic has announced a strategic partnership with regulated payments platform Monavate, owned by Exodus Movement, Inc., to provide fintech and digital asset companies with a unified path to build, launch, and scale card programs using both fiat and digital currencies. By combining Lithic’s developer-first processing infrastructure and Authorization Intelligence with Monavate’s FCA-regulated e-money status, BIN sponsorship, scheme memberships across Mastercard, Visa, and Discover, and global settlement capabilities, the collaboration eliminates the operational complexity of managing multiple vendor relationships, contracts, and integration timelines across distinct issuing layers. Highlighting the market need for streamlined payment infrastructure, Michael Rolph, CEO at Monavate, stated:</p>
<h4><strong>Also Read: <a class="p-url" href="https://itdigest.com/quick-byte/zocks-debuts-ai-scheduling-to-unify-financial-advisor-workflows/" target="_self" rel="bookmark" data-wpel-link="internal">Zocks Debuts AI Scheduling to Unify Financial Advisor Workflows</a> </strong></h4>
<p>&#8220;Companies building card programs should not have to choose between regulated reach and modern technology. Monavate holds the licenses, the scheme <span class="citation-3444 citation-end-3444">memberships and the settlement infrastructure. Lithic runs one of the strongest processing platforms in the market. Together, we can take a combined offering to the world and serve both traditional and on-chain finance from the same foun</span>dation.&#8221; Reinforcing the momentum behind digital asset integration, Nikil Konduru, chief commercial officer at Lithic, noted: &#8220;Traditional and on-chain finance are blending together. That&#8217;s exactly what our programmable card issuing infrastructure was built to support. Partnering with Monavate lets us bring that infrastructure to more regulated markets as those programs keep growing.&#8221; Expected to launch in Q4 2026, this joint solution equips high-growth enterprises to accelerate market entry, simplify regulatory compliance, and deliver scalable payment experiences across conventional and decentralized finance ecosystems.</p>
<h4 class="source-inline-chip-container luminous-sources ng-star-inserted"><strong>Read More: <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260813108593/en/Lithic-and-Monavate-Partner-to-Power-Card-Programs-Across-Traditional-and-On-Chain-Finance" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer sponsored ugc">Lithic and Monavate Partner to Power Card Programs Across Traditional and On-Chain Finance</a></strong></h4>
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		<title>CrowdStrike Expands Project QuiltWorks to SMBs, Extending Frontier AI Protection</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>CrowdStrike has revealed that Project QuiltWorks will now be offered to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) worldwide. This move allows their enterprise-grade frontier AI risk protection setup to be available to all organizations, regardless of size. The situation is such that AI-powered malicious models have shortened the timeline between vulnerability discovery by cybercriminals and the [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://itdigest.com/quick-byte/crowdstrike-expands-project-quiltworks-to-smbs-extending-frontier-ai-protection/" data-wpel-link="internal">CrowdStrike Expands Project QuiltWorks to SMBs, Extending Frontier AI Protection</a> appeared first on <a href="https://itdigest.com" data-wpel-link="internal">ITDigest</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CrowdStrike has revealed that Project QuiltWorks will now be offered to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) worldwide. This move allows their enterprise-grade frontier AI risk protection setup to be available to all organizations, regardless of size. The situation is such that AI-powered malicious models have shortened the timeline between vulnerability discovery by cybercriminals and the time it takes them to exploit them, thereby increasing the speed and scale of cyberthreats. This has resulted in a lot of small businesses that do not have adequate internal resources to deal with cybersecurity threats to run the risk of being affected. To take QuiltWorks to more customers, CrowdStrike is using its international distributor, cloud marketplace and channel partner ecosystem. Among the notable partners are Arrow Electronics, Ignition Technology, Nord Security Pax8 TD SYNNEX, Westcon-Comstor and Zip Security.</p>
<h4><strong>Also Read: <a class="p-url" href="https://itdigest.com/quick-byte/bigid-introduces-governance-layer-to-secure-autonomous-ai-agents/" target="_self" rel="bookmark" data-wpel-link="internal">BigID Introduces Governance Layer to Secure Autonomous AI Agents</a> </strong></h4>
<p>Powered by frontier AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic, Project QuiltWorks integrates CrowdStrike’s AI-driven vulnerability discovery and prioritization with specialized remediation services, hardened AWS cloud infrastructure, and cyber insurance financial protection. Emphasizing the strategic necessity of democratization across the channel, Daniel Bernard, chief business officer, CrowdStrike, stated: &#8220;Frontier AI has fundamentally shifted cybersecurity from risk management to business imperative. SMBs are the backbone of the global economy and need the same standard of protection as the world’s largest enterprises. QuiltWorks has proven itself that standard, attempted by others, replicated by none. The channel is how QuiltWorks can reach every organization, regardless of size, sector, or geography.&#8221; By enabling MSPs and MSSPs to deliver this unified framework at scale, CrowdStrike empowers SMBs to defend against machine-speed attacks while building repeatable, high-growth AI security practices on the Falcon platform.</p>
<h4><strong>Read More: <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260812800795/en/CrowdStrike-Expands-Project-QuiltWorks-to-SMBs-Extending-Frontier-AI-Risk-Protection-to-Organizations-of-Every-Size" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer sponsored ugc">CrowdStrike Expands Project QuiltWorks to SMBs, Extending Frontier AI Risk Protection to Organizations of Every Size</a></strong></h4>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Datavault AI Inc., a leader in data monetization, credentialing, digital engagement, and real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, announced a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of CyberCatch Holdings, Inc. The acquisition, structured as an all-cash transaction valued at $94.5 million ($3.53 per share) via a court-approved plan of arrangement in British Columbia, replaces an earlier stock-based transaction [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Datavault AI Inc., a leader in data monetization, credentialing, digital engagement, and real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, announced a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of CyberCatch Holdings, Inc. The acquisition, structured as an all-cash transaction valued at $94.5 million ($3.53 per share) via a court-approved plan of arrangement in British Columbia, replaces an earlier stock-based transaction structure.</p>
<p>The strategic acquisition integrates CyberCatch’s patented, AI-driven continuous compliance and risk mitigation software directly into Datavault AI’s Quantum Private Network (QPN) GPU ecosystem and Data Vault® Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP). The combined architecture will deliver automated cybersecurity checks, threat resolution, and quantum-resistant security controls across distributed cloud and edge computing environments.</p>
<h4>Enhancing Data Trust and Continuous Compliance</h4>
<p>CyberCatch’s continuous compliance engine utilizes generative and agentic AI to monitor cybersecurity controls, conduct automated penetration testing, and evaluate risk posture across key regulatory standards, including NIST CSF 2.0, NIST 800-171, CMMC 2.0, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and PCI DSS.</p>
<h4><strong>Also Read: <a class="p-url" href="https://itdigest.com/information-communications-technology/cybersecurity/attackiq-unveils-ava-agentic-os-to-drive-autonomous-ctem-execution/" target="_self" rel="bookmark" data-wpel-link="internal">AttackIQ Unveils AVA Agentic OS to Drive Autonomous CTEM Execution</a> </strong></h4>
<p>Following the transaction&#8217;s close, CyberCatch will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Datavault AI based in San Diego, California. Founder, Chairman, and CEO Sai Huda will continue leading the unit as President of the subsidiary. Datavault AI plans to deploy CyberCatch’s security technology across its primary platform components, including DataValue®, DataScore®, Information Data Exchange® (IDE®), and its Acoustic Sciences portfolio.</p>
<p>&#8220;Small business owners want a retirement plan solution that is simple to adopt, easy to manage, and built to grow with their business,&#8221; said Mary Torgerson, Head of Small Business Retirement at Ascensus. &#8220;Ascensus Essentials brings together streamlined plan design, scalable capabilities, and an improved onboarding experience to help advisors and business owners move forward with greater confidence. This enhanced offering underscores our relentless commitment to making retirement benefits more accessible and easier to administer for small businesses.&#8221;</p>
<h4>Transaction Structure and Regulatory Approvals</h4>
<p>The transaction shifts CyberCatch’s acquisition model to a fixed all-cash payout, eliminating previous share-issuance dilution concerns for existing Datavault AI equity holders.</p>
<p>The completion of the plan of arrangement remains subject to customary closing conditions, including:</p>
<p>Approval by <a href="https://cybercatch.com/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer sponsored ugc">CyberCatch</a> shareholders.</p>
<p>Supreme Court of British Columbia approval.</p>
<p>Regulatory clearances and approvals from The Nasdaq Stock Market and the TSX Venture Exchange.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Ascensus Essentials Individual(k) digital onboarding experience was clear and efficient from start to finish,&#8221; noted Kyle Worthy, Director of Retirement Plans at Spartan Wealth Management. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t need to make a single phone call and my clients were able to easily navigate the onboarding tasks. It&#8217;s changed how I think about doing more business with Ascensus.&#8221;</p>
<h4>Unifying Asset Valuation with Quantum-Resistant Defense</h4>
<p>By merging continuous automated cybersecurity with real-world asset tokenization and edge AI infrastructure, <a href="https://dvlt.ai/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer sponsored ugc">Datavault AI</a> aims to address escalating security demands across defense, finance, healthcare, and regulated enterprise supply chains.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Cybersecurity leaders Nozomi Networks and Sophos have announced a strategic cooperation aimed at overcoming the IT-OT security operational gap that has been a point of frustration for many years. A new and specially designed interoperability is enabling the Nozomi Networks Vantage, a cloud-first security solution with AI features for OT and CPS, to be connected [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://itdigest.com/information-communications-technology/cybersecurity/nozomi-networks-and-sophos-partner-to-unify-it-and-ot-security-operations/" data-wpel-link="internal">Nozomi Networks and Sophos Partner to Unify IT and OT Security Operations</a> appeared first on <a href="https://itdigest.com" data-wpel-link="internal">ITDigest</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cybersecurity leaders Nozomi Networks and Sophos have announced a strategic cooperation aimed at overcoming the IT-OT security operational gap that has been a point of frustration for many years. A new and specially designed interoperability is enabling the Nozomi Networks Vantage, a cloud-first security solution with AI features for OT and CPS, to be connected with Sophos Fusion, an AI cybersecurity platform.</p>
<p>This partnership is one of the first prominent outside integrations for technology to be launched on Sophos Fusion. This shows that Sophos is dedicated to creating and promoting of an open and tightly-knit cybersecurity environment with partners. The integration of Nozomi&#8217;s OT data such as telemetry, details about different types of assets and threat indicators into the Sophos Fusion makes use of that data which helps Security Operations Centers (SOC) analysts track and respond to events quickly and accurately, by combining IT and OT systems, without the need to switch back and forth contexts to different consoles.</p>
<h4>Mitigating Escalating Cyber Risks Across Critical Infrastructure</h4>
<p>Industrial organizations and critical infrastructure operators face unprecedented security challenges as nation-state actors and cybercriminal groups intensify attacks on connected operational environments. Because many high-impact industrial disruptions originate from initial compromises within corporate IT networks, maintaining unified, cross-domain observability has become essential.</p>
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<p>By feeding Nozomi&#8217;s OT context into Sophos’ defense architecture, enterprise security teams can correlate industrial threat signals with telemetry spanning endpoints, networks, identities, and multi-cloud environments.</p>
<p>“The intersection of IT and OT environments has long been misunderstood by the cybersecurity industry, leading to inefficiencies and potential danger for critical infrastructure,” said Matt Cowell, Vice President of Strategic Alliances at <a href="https://www.nozominetworks.com/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer sponsored ugc">Nozomi Networks</a>. “This partnership helps solve these problems by seamlessly integrating OT intelligence into IT security investigations so teams have the full picture when assessing their increasingly expanding attack surface.”</p>
<h4>Streamlining Investigation Workflows and Security Automation</h4>
<p>The technical integration delivers several key operational advantages for enterprise SOC teams and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs):</p>
<p><strong>Contextual Data Correlation:</strong> Unifies OT asset intelligence with endpoint, network, and cloud telemetry inside a single pane of glass.</p>
<p><strong>Accelerated Incident Response:</strong> Eliminates the need for security analysts to manually pivot between disjointed software consoles during active investigations.</p>
<p><strong>Automated Orchestration:</strong> Enables security teams to leverage Nozomi’s OT data within automated Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) playbooks for continuous threat enrichment and rapid mitigation.</p>
<p><strong>MSSP Efficiency:</strong> Empowers service providers to extend existing IT security offerings into manufacturing and industrial sectors without introducing complex operational overhead.</p>
<p>“Defenders need every resource they can to combat sophisticated threat actors. This partnership helps security teams easily assess OT and IT vulnerabilities in one place, allowing them to take action much faster,” said Chris Bell, senior vice president of global channel and alliances at <a href="https://www.sophos.com/en-gb" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer sponsored ugc">Sophos</a>. “Following the launch of Sophos Fusion, this is a testament to our commitment to bring best-of-breed security technologies into a single defense system for superior threat detection, investigation, and response.”</p>
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